Usually means: Skin surrounding the nail base.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuticles: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuticles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cuticles: Vocabulary.com
  4. cuticles: Wordnik
  5. cuticles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cuticles: Wiktionary
  7. cuticles: Dictionary.com
  8. cuticles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cuticles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Cuticles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cuticles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuticles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Cuticles: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cuticle)

noun:  The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
noun:  The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
noun:  Dead or cornified epidermis.
noun:  (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
noun:  A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
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